An experiment in which students use clips to represent bird beaks of different sizes. In the first part of the experiment, both students attempted to pick up large flat beans. Explain the outcome of that experiment using the term natural selection.
The outcome of the experiment would likely show that the student with the clip that represented a larger bird beak was more successful in picking up the large flat beans. This outcome can be explained using the term natural selection because the clip representing the larger beak size was better adapted to the task of picking up the larger beans. In nature, birds with larger beaks may have an advantage in gathering food, such as larger seeds or insects, and are therefore more likely to survive and pass on their genes to their offspring. This process of organisms better adapted to their environment being more likely to survive and reproduce is known as natural selection.
